My poor soul on Display! Saving Private Ryan (1998) | FIRST TIME WATCHING
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I was looking in the comments and some stood out
When I asked If its a true story , I MEANT HOW CLOSE TO history is it .
When I said who wrote it I meant who took care of collecting the details, puting everyhting in order etc. OF COURSE IS HISTORY .... thats why I asked how close is it followed .
My first language is not English so its a bit more difficult sometimes to express what exactly I mean espacially if there are lots of emotions involved .
Thank you to everyone that took they time and explained and answered my questions .
I was born 14 years after the War. What really stuck in my memory...based on that movie...was the rain...the buildings...and the four young men put against a wall and shot by the Germans for resisting the German occupation , in the sweet town where I grew up in France.After all these years (I'm 64 ) I'm absolutely convinced that our True enemy is the devil...not the Germans or anybody else.
FUBAR is an acronym for F*cked up beyond reality. I was a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne in the 90's and we still used that term... hell we still use until today. My Grandfather and his twin brother both fought through Normandy and farther into Europe and were both wounded twice.
Your English is Good. It can only get better. I like your points of view We are all Human. Be Well.
sou brasileiro e interessante sua reação aos filmes de guerra, parabéns (I'm Brazilian and interesting to see your reaction to war movies, congratulations.)
Don’t listen to people. I think they understand sometimes there’s a cultural language deficit should I say. Also, slang, sometimes comes up. If they’re not willing to understand that, don’t listen to them.
My father was a DDay veteran. After I saw the movie I told him to not see it. He eventually did see the movie and said that he found the experience healing. He said that the movie was really how it was. Weeks later I met a man who grew up in Normandy France. I told him about my father. He told me to tell my father "Thank you very much". When I passed this along to my father he cried. One of the very few times I had ever seen him cry. Years later I was able to visit Normandy and the cemetery in the opening scene of the movie. A friend gathered a jar of sand for me to give to my father. For the rest of his life, that jar was never more than an arm's length away. When my father died we added some of the sand to his ashes. There is a scene on the beach where a soldier with USN on his helmet tells Cpt Miller to move away from an obstacle because he is going to blow it. That is what my father did on DDay. He was a member of NCDU, Naval Combat Demolition Unit, (which later became the Navy SEALS), they were landed minutes ahead of the invasion and tasked with blowing up the obstacles. They landed at low tide. The tide on Omaha comes in very fast. My son and I counted 400 paces from the low water line to the first cover on the beach. One other item. About the use of morphine ... one for pain ... two for eternity
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Remember the part nobody cares?
@@TheMandalorianRedeemedah, gfy
@@TheMandalorianRedeemed boooooooo
Much respect. Those men were American heroes.
My grandfather was shot and wounded in the Ardennes on Christmas eve 1944.
He wanted to go see this movie with me. I was 18. The same age he was in ‘44.
He got up and walked out after 5 minutes with tears streaming out of his eyes.
He died in ‘99 about a year later.
We had one conversation about his experiences overseas.
That’s between he and I.
I miss him every day.
You had a great grandfather, great person and a very strong one.
My respect to your grandfather for his service & I’m truly glad he made it out alive & was there to watch you grow up ❤🙌🫡
@@docsavage8640 imagine if you had anything to do at all other than piss on anonymous people online.
I hope something wonderful happens to you today.
You don’t deserve it.
And you likely won’t notice or enjoy it when it does.
But I hope it happens anyway.
God bless.
@@docsavage8640 imagine if you didn´t need to hurt by being a smart ass
It's war ppl die even his army did things immoral everyone just justifies and say it's ok I'm protecting u
I lived in Caen, Normandy in the Spring of 1998. During the Allied invasion in 1944, about 80% of the city was destroyed by Allied bombing. Over 50 years later, the local residents were still grateful to the Americans, Canadians and British for liberating them. The American and German cemeteries and the beaches and museums in Normandy are something to behold.
Just a few months after my semester in Normandy, I was sitting in a Wisconsin movie theater, watching "Saving Private Ryan" on four separate occasions. The opening scene in the American cemetery gave me chills, as I had walked those same paths just a few months before. The film still affects me to this day.
I visited my uncles grave in France recently, an RAF gunner, he was shot down and killed in 1944.
..This is after he'd been shot down previously, escaped the Germans, & got back to the UK.
Those 'ordinary' guys are true heroes.
@@spoonunit03 ayyyyyyye brother from across the pond. We love you guys over here. Allies for life 👊
If you want to see another Great War film, got to checkout Hacksaw Ridge. Also, Hacksaw Ridge based on a true story.
My grandfather was a tail gunner in a B-17 “Flying Fortress” and he always expressed immense guilt about some of the bombings they did, when the bombs didn’t hit their intended targets, even though he had no control over that.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki thak you too? Why doesn't Hollywood make more movies about it?
This is what my grandfather was doing on his 30th birthday. He was in the fourth wave with the tankers. Thanks for watching this, Biss. FUBAR is F**ked Up Beyond Any Recognition.
Any or all
Also F*cked Up By Army Regulation.
I thought it was "fucked up beyond all repair"
A more common acronym is SNAFU, which means Situation Normal, All Fucked Up.
It varies by nationality, theres similar but slightly differing versions in use by different countries armed forces (and through the years) and also largely depends who you ask within any given group its slang its not like its in the service manual ;)
The storming the beaches scene was even more horrifying in real life. That single beach landed cost roughly the same amount of American lives as the entire war in Afghanistan. Those men went through hell and came out the otherside
My grandpa was in the first boat of the second wave at Omaha Beach. He snuck around to see this (we wouldn't let him because he never talked about the war or could watch movies about it.). The only comments he had about that scene was that the water wasn't dark enough or red enough, and that I was much worse but her understood they'd never be able to show the film if it had been accurate.
Those insane opening scenes of the D-Day landings were filmed on a beach in Ireland.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki thak you too? Why doesn't Hollywood make more movies about it?
@@FlavioBBMP I mean Oppenheimer is about to come out. That's literally about the atom bomb sooo
@@FlavioBBMP Hollywood would only ever make a movie about those bombings if the overwhelming majority of people wanted that, but that isn't the case. Although I don't doubt there will be movies about that in the future!
Your feelings for the soldiers trying to surrender is absolutely spot on. As a veteran who served during Desert Storm through the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11, it is a difficult thing to have to make a decision in the heat of battle as well as what to do with a Prisoner Of War when you have no way of taking him with you or ensuring that he will not take up arms against you later. This exact scene was used in leadership school to show the difficulties involved in a no win situation. No one should give you any crap about your concern for human life.
@hephner78 They are Czech not Polish.
@hephner78 and yet Biscute translated what he was saying?
your comment is typical of usa regime's craven military, which has not won even one real war since ww2. remember thousands of women and children killed in iraq and afghanistan by american military as they ran away, betraying their regime's puppets, and abandoning their equipment. no doubt why you had no "concern for human life". pathetic.
From the family of some veterans, thank you for your sacrifices.
@@Oduunich yes running away and causing deaths of women and children with no "concern for human life" are "sacrifices",
Gripe means to complain.
P.O.W. is Prisoner of War
I must've seen this movie 30 times or more. "Tell me I'm a good man" still makes me cry every time.
Honestly, the only scene that still hits me so bad is seeing Ryan’s mother collapse on her front porch at the sight of the officer and the priest getting out of the car. No mother on this earth deserves that. No mother on any corner of this world deserves that pain.
Before the battle of Normandy, there were 5 brothers who served together in the Navy. The Sullivans. All 5 died. As a result, the department of defense enacted the sole survivor policy which is the theme of this movie really. They are saving private Ryan because he is the last son of the Ryan family.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sullivan_brothers
Wade's death still gets me every time
Yeah man, it's that mental brain fuck that she's expecting to get a notification of one of her sons being killed only to learn it was all of them except one. SO SAD AND HEARTBREAKING!!
STRONGLY recommend the "Band of Brothers" 10-part mini-series for you to watch. It is focused on a single group (Easy Company) from their jump into Normandy (D-Day) until the end of the war. Since it is a 10-part series, it gives you a better chance to get to know the men involved, as well as understand the way they interact with each other. While it has some series action moments through the series, it also has some highly respectable "dramatic moments" where characters simply talk to each other or bond through sharing and helping each other.
As far as "something you would like"? I'm not sure. Most people will say that you "will like it" because of how wonderful they were with the details and the way the actors did their jobs playing the parts. BUT, being a "war based series"? I'm not sure if that would be "your taste of things to watch".
Couldn't agree more Band of Brothers brings a level of quality and details that is to be commended
Totally Agree, Band Of Brother Is Highly Recommended, And Don't Forget To Try To React The Pacific Too 👍
One of the best mini- series I have ever watched ( Band of Brothers). Really worth watching.
I concur on Band of Brothers ...🤍🙏to all who lost love ones in WWII.
You have to! Its the best thing ever! Make it happen! Thank You!
A "bangalore" is a tool more than a weapon. It's an explosive that is attached to a long tube that is used to blow up obstacles, like barbed wire, that you can't move directly and that would impede your movement. So it's a grenade on a stick. I am not really sure what they were blowing up in this film (it may have been barbed wire), but presumably they needed to clear it to be able to move forward. Also, in the scene at 10:07 (the "Look I washed for supper" scene), the Wermacht soldier was saying, in Czech, "Please don’t shoot me! I am not German, I am Czech, I didn’t kill anyone! I am Czech!" So the point was that you're not supposed to agree with the soldiers executing those men as they were probably conscripted against their will.
I still don't understand either the choreography involving the banglore in this film.
The bangalore is a tube filled with explosive. The ends can be screwed together to make a long enough tube to slide through the obstacle (usually barbed wire). When exploded it will blow the wire away to make a path through the obstacle.
Thanks for that long explanation that shows you have no idea what you're talking about. You say you don't know what they could be blowiing up maybe barbed wire. Yeah that is what you would use it for. Is there supposed to be more to use it for? Also it's not a grenade on a stick. The entire tube is explosives. You wanted to look cool typing a bunch of nonsense and got called out by someone who has used bangalores.
@@Manbunmen65 No need to be a jerk to the original commenter, especially when there ARE other uses for bangalores. Bangalores were used to clear ALL obstacles in WW2, not just barbed wire. In this case they were blowing up barbed wire, but bangalores were also used to quickly clear paths in mine fields for example.
After all these years, the first 30 minutes is still the most intense first 30 minutes of a movie that I have seen. This movie is one of the main reasons why Steven Spielberg is at the top of my list for the best director of all time. RIP to all those brave men who lost their lives. I really enjoyed your reaction to this classic which i give a 5 out of 5. Thanks Biss!!!
and those minutes are highly exaggerated .
Yea, I'd saw it in theater and I was in awe of this scene.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki thak you too? Why doesn't Hollywood make more movies about it?
@@FlavioBBMP Why should they?
@@sitting_nut maybe the battles in the war were exchanges of caresses and I don't know
Your grasp of military terminology and use of it, always in context, is great.
Thanks ❤
Fun fact: Tom Hanks is a huge typewriter enthusiast so that bit with the new translator was a nod to him.
4:29 "Who wrote this?" History wrote this, this was so accurate that when it was first screened by the survivors of D-Day, they had crisis counselors in the lobby to help with PTSD (shell shock)... I saw this in the theater with my family (3 generations of USMC) And we were all shook 😳 on how life like they made this😢
Ya, I saw it in the theater with my best friend and his father who was in the First Infantry WW2... During the first invasion scene he teared up and walked out... He couldn't watch.. He's passed since but is one of the toughest men I've ever known. Much respect.
This was made with the aid of veterans who were there on that day. I was lucky to go to the Charity premier in the UK and met several veterans who were there on the beach. They informed me that it was a true representation of what happened on the beach
Some had to leave, not because of what they saw but because they remember the smell of diesel and it overwhelmed them it was that strong a memory
Fun Fact: Matt Damon was actually the original actor marvel wanted to play Captain America.
I absolutely love that you know some of the jargon and hand signals used. You seem very knowledgeable on the subject matter already, so here’s some more tidbits of info that you may have missed in the film:
1. During the sniper scene, Jackson is seen switching out his scope to make the long range shot. While the M1903A4 Springfield did have a removable scope, it was not something that was done in the field and US snipers weren’t issued an extra scope for long range shooting.
2. This is probably the only film I know that features both fire rates of the M1918A2 BAR (Rieben’s gun). Unlike most firearms that have a selector lever that switches between semi automatic and full automatic, the M1918A2 can switch between two different full auto settings. The slow auto fires the gun around 400 RPM, the fast auto fires it around 600 RPM.
3. Flamethrowers weren’t actually used during the landing at Omaha Beach. The operators were landed as regular infantry, but their weapons were held back in the third wave. By the time they had a chance to retrieve their weapons, most of the defenses at the beachhead had been secured, so there was no opportunity to use them.
4. Miller’s team is basically the WWII equivalent of a modern day special forces team. Originally trained by the British commandos, the Ranger battalions were assigned the most dangerous jobs that needed to be carried out by a small group of specialized infantry. By comparison, Upham is an intelligence soldier made to translate maps and documents. It’d be like sticking a rear-echelon soldier into a Navy SEAL platoon and expecting him to perform the same. Had Miller’s two previous translators not been killed, Upham wouldn’t have gone on the mission.
5. While Saving Private Ryan gets the atmosphere of the Omaha beach landings, it’s always important to remember that the real Omaha Beach was MUCH worse than what was shown on screen. It took almost 4 hours to move inland to attack the defenses, which were much farther back from the beach head and better camouflaged.
6. The German machine gun used to mow down the Americans on the beach is still being used today by the German military, it was that good in combat. In fact, some modern day German soldiers training on the MG3 have said that some of the parts on their guns have 1940s markings on them. It’s literally the same gun, just converted to a modern day round.
Yours is the top best and most informative comment in this thread.
Points 2 and 3 are new to me, thanks for the information
Another thing. The two open air "tanks" are more properly called self-propelled guns. Kind of an intermediate step between howitzers and tanks. They did not have a turret and therefore could only traverse through a small arc and had little protection for the crew. They were never intended to operate like tanks but instead were to sit back and shell the enemy from a distance. Of course, in battle nothing ever goes as planned so they often ended up too far forward.
I think the MG3 is bring used in Ukraine...
This film goes down as one of that all time greatest movies ever made. I saw it 25 years ago when it came out and it still affects me to this day. Thanks for another great reaction.
"I Usually say: God grant me patience, because if you give me strength I might kill them all"
BissCute - April, 2023
"Grenade the shit out of them" 🤣
35:15 , the strategy the captain is implementing calls for a push from the center, up the right, and up the left, to swarm the machine gun nest, the idea is that there’s only one gunner, so he can only aim in one place, so whoever is pinned stays and whoever isn’t moves, and you just move up and up until you’re on top of gunner unit at the top of the hill. Why no one wants to go left is because they’re positioned on the right of the area of engagement, so if you’re going right, you’re already on your side you need to push from, if middle, you need to traverse some ground to get to the middle, but if you’re moving left, you must traverse the entire field of combat and then, assuming you arrive safely, push the left flank. He tells the sergeant he isn’t pushing left because Horvath is a, chubby boy, so, the idea of a slower runner pushing all the way across then keeping pace to move up is a terrible idea. But, such was WWII field tactics, usually three prongs and move forward, once close, toss grenades. Something I think a lot of people don’t know about WWII is the amount of grenades people would toss, it was a lot. It was a large portion of the strategy itself haha
53:11 - That "open tank" is a self-propelled anti-tank gun (also known as a tank destroyer) and not a true tank. During WWII Germany produced a variety of self-propelled guns by mounting anti-tank guns or howitzers on top of the chassis of older/obsolete tanks and then partially surrounding the guns with armored panels to provide some degree of protection for the gun crews.
The Marder III was the most numerous of the WWII German open-top self-propelled anti-tank guns. The reproduction vehicle used in the movie might represent a Marder III.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marder_III
Correct. To explain further: Many nations made tank destroyers; several nations including the USA had tank destroyers with open turrets. The thin armor was there for protection against small arms, and they were generally hidden to ambush vehicles instead of relying on heavy armor for protection.
Once you've recovered fully from this amazing film, I suggest the equally amazing 'Hacksaw Ridge'. The acting in that movie is phenominal!
I agree Hacksaw Ridge is just as amazing... Not to spoil the plot but its about a young man who wants to do his part in the war, but without carrying/using a weapon....
Absolutely
Unlike this hateful and fictional propaganda, Hacksaw Ridge is about a real person and it's a much better movie
@@LukeLovesRose this movie never promised to be precisely historical, do you complain about john wick being fictional action?
@@futrecacao knock it off. All I hear from you people is that Braveheart is the most inaccurate movie ever made. I think that Hollywood propaganda like every WWII movie ever made is tiresome
When this movie was in cinemas and showed to veterans from ww2 a lot of them left after the opening scene because it was too real for them.
I wasn`t any vet, but i have a panick attack watching this film at the theaters.
An old man had a heart attack in the theater when I went to see the movie, he was a veteran of the Spanish Civil War. He survived, it was in the newspaper a couple of days later.
@@jackprescott9652 lame
The veterans who were at the invasion of Normandy and went to see this movie cried or just left - it was that traumatizing to their memories. That cemetery represented at the beginning is one of SEVERAL that actually exist.
The VA opened a hotline after this movie was released for veterans suffering PTSD after seeing this movie, esp. the opening.
10:35 they're breaking down because they found a 'Hitler Youth Knife' meaning the soldiers they just killed in that bunker were children.
Two things for you, first is there was a thing that came out because of this war called the "Sullivan Act". It made it where family members could not serve in the same company together and most tried to keep them out of the same theater. Second you wanted to know what F.U.B.A.R stood for it is F---ed Up Beyond All Recognition. Great reaction Lady B to a truly great movie.
FUBAR is the "translation" or rather the use of the german word "furchtbar" (horrible, terrible).
This movie is based on a true story, but in the real story it was later discovered that one of the brothers was in a prisoner camp and reunited with the family after the war.
4:30 History wrote this. What was shown was even less bloody and violent than the real landing. A veteran was once asked how the landing in the movie was portrayed compared to the real thing, and the veteran replied something along the lines of: "Should have been more bodies."
You left in the Bixby Letter! It's my favorite part of the movie (besides being told to 'earn it') and you're possibly the first reactor that gave it the attention.
Good Job, Hon. 👍
Quite an emotional response to this movie. It affects all of us who know the sacrifices these soldiers had to endure. The Greatest Generation.
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"On the level" means "I am telling the truth". If you use a carpenter's level to level, say, a picture frame, then once it is level you can say that it is "true". That's where that saying comes from. "Gripe" means complaint, but a little more emotional. "Defilade" means a place that has no line of site to another place. They were seeking defilade from the machinegun. Hope that helps. :)
Biss, your empathy for the German soldiers surrendering is spot on. Not shooting and killing prisoners of war out of vengeance is also what makes us humans. There isn't really a good or bad side in war, just soldiers from different countries and belligerents being put there by their leaders. A little fact about this film, it is loosely based on the 4 Niland brothers. At 1 point 3 of them were thought to have been killed in action, the Army decided to save the last surviving brother (also a paratrooper dropped during D-Day) and send him home. It was eventually found out that another brother (a fighter or bomber pilot) was still alive, being held as a prisoner of war after his plane got shot down.
note: a "bangalore" is a type of demolition charge, they tubes filled with explosives, these tubes can be connected one behind other, usually used to clear a path in a minefield, or barbwire.
It’s hard to take prisoners while still in combat. Normally prisoners are taken after one side surrenders because it’s virtually impossible to guard prisoners in a battle.
Can you imagine seeing this in a Cinema with the surround sound for the first time. When I saw it, the whole cinema was in shock after the first couple of minutes of the landing. Not often that a movie just throws you in to the most gory scene you have ever witnessed
My dad served in the Middle East through a good portion of my childhood. Watching war movies was sort of my way of trying to feel a connection to him when he was away, and I've watched a bunch even after he came home. But he would never watch them with me. "Saving Private Ryan" is the one exception he ever made. He sat like a statue through most of it, but by the end, he was in tears, and he NEVER cries. We've had our share of tragedies in my family and I've only seen him cry twice. One of which was from watching this movie. This movie is one of the best war movies I've seen.
Someone in my family served during almost every war since the first world war, but World War II was the exception. No one in my family was part of WWII.
That young soldier you kept saying was familiar to you was in The Green Mile. He was the youngest guard there.
"This is so bloody, so violent".
This was D-Day. This was what it was like on that day for those soldiers storming the beaches of Normandy. Veterans who watched this movie had to leave because for them it was so accurate it brought it all rushing back to them. They said that the only thing missing was the smell of blood and diesel, and there were a LOT more bodies. The beaches were stained red for weeks afterward from this offensive.
This is why no one should seek to make war on others, but should be ready to defend against those who are insane enough to do so.
"Bangalores" are bangalore torpedoes, used by Army engineers to clear anti-infantry land obstructions so that friendly troops can advance. They used them to take down barbed wire and low earthworks so that the infantry could move forward without slowing down.
The helmet wouldn't have saved that guy either, he got EXTREMELY lucky with the one that deflected since it hit at such a crazy angle. Those helmets were basically just hard hats to protect from explosion debris, and would not stop a straight shot in the slightest.
The one soldier also told the others to let them burn when they flamed the bunker not to save ammo, but to prolong the German soldiers' suffering as they burned to death.
The surrendering soldiers were Czech conscripts (compulsory military service) who were saying in Czech "We are Czech! We didn't kill anyone, we surrender!"
Thanks for this great and honestly reaction. The way that you transmite your feelings is amazing. Congratulations.
Fun Fact: private Ryan’s story about the last time he saw his brothers in the barn with the ugly girl was completely improvised by Matt Damon on the spot. That’s why I Tom Hanks has such a weird look on his face and at one moment you can briefly see him glimpse off to the side of the camera; that was actually Tom Hanks looking at Steven Spielberg to see if he wanted him to go along with it, and Spielberg gave him the hand signal to keep filming. As a result, we got one of the most memorable human moments from this whole movie.
The Catholic Sniper that you recognized is Barry Pepper, who was also in The Green Mile, if you watched that one. On a personal note, my grandfather was a tank driver on D-Day, but I didn't get a lot of talk out of him about it. He did not live long enough to see this movie.
I was an Army officer in the 1980s. Your general feelings about right and wrong are spot on, in fact one of the books we had to read was titled War, Morality, and the Military Profession. You need to balance your, and your men's, humanity against your mission, your job. As a soldier, you have to accept you may take a life, AND may give up yours. As an officer, think about ordering others into harms way, it's gut-wrenching. You always have to keep in mind the big picture, and what this movie is so good at is showing the big picture through a bunch of small pictures. Oh, there are 7 basic Military maneuvers if I remember. The is the frontal attack, there is the single envelopment, and the double envelopment. When the captain was send his guys left and right...double envelopment. Keeps the enemy focus off a single point. Sorry for the detail. The bridge they are covering I think is part of Operation Marketgarden, covered in the movie A Bridge Too Far.
Rivian and Upham lived ...they were the ones who confirmed the story. Spielberg made sure that this movie was as historically accurate as possible. We can't forget that war...
Only partly based on entirely different facts.
Saving Private Ryan
This movie is a fictional film of WWII’s D-Day invasion … in which three of four brothers are KIA (killed in action) and a squad / platoon (8 men) search for the remaining live brother.
D-Day remains the LARGEST amphibious invasion in history … the transfer of 39 divisions (22 American), over 1 million soldiers to Normandy France.
The Allies began their invasion at 6:30am and repelled the Germans by days end … at a cost of more than 10,000 KIA & MIAs.
American soldiers that survived the first days invasion attested to the films accuracy in the nature & brutality of combat.
A slightly unknown factoid is that German machine gunner that was depicted firing down onto Americans landing at Dog-1 … massacring them before they could even get off their LST. That machine gunner identified himself well after the war as Heinrich Severloh, an 18 year old son of a farmer, that was conscripted by the Germans. Heinrich admitted that he believed he killed more Americans in a single day than any other soldier … more than 1000, possibly over 2000 … and for the rest of his life, the nightmares would never stop!
Back to SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, I would hope that you & EVERY American would sit down a day or two before every Memorial Day or Veterans Day and rewatch this film. But, next time rejoin the film mentally doing so AS AN UNSEEN MEMBER OF THE SQUAD … to mentally & emotionally connect to the other soldiers … hopefully, to understand all of the veterans combat problems. America, the people, are now highly insulated from soldiers / veterans … they be stunned into remembering the wounded, maimed & dead … but seem to never comprehend those with invisible wounds … those that returned with PTSD, the veterans that choose to be homeless because they don’t deserve to continue living a good life, those 22 that are committing suicides every day.
This movie was produced loosely on a true story and several similar situations. I’m not seeking compassion … rather a realistic understanding of WHY we returned as we did! Even though we got back to family & loved ones. The recognized our shell, but found strangers with in. Some of us got back … but, not really, not completely! Others couldn’t accept the peaceful life, their friends couldn’t return to … and chose life on the streets as recompense.
Movie done, how did you make it???
A lot of reactors get confused between the German prisoner that they let go and the German who killed Mellish. They were two different Germans and wore different uniforms. The German that they let go earlier was a regular Wehrmacht soldier but the German who killed Hellish was an SS soldier. The German who re-appeared a little later after Hellish was killed, and who shot Tom Hanks before Upham stopped him and executed him, THAT guy was the same guy that they let go earlier.
18:11 - Gripe means "complaining. Someone who is griping is complaining or has an issue/problem with someone/something.
39:35 - P.O.W. is a "prisoner of war".
You do know now I hope that this opening sequence in the movie is based on the D-day landings at Normandy in World War 2 and has been described as the most realistic depiction ever filmed of what that battle was like.
In the office scenes when they figure out Ryan has brothers, they mention " the Sullivan's" those were 4 brothers from Waterloo Iowa ( USA) who were killed on the same ship in the same battle. In WW 2
The guy on the stairs who lets Upum live is not the same guy they captured and released. That POW blindfolded guy IS the one who shoots Tom Hanks and gets killed by Upum at the end when he recognizes him though!
They look alike for sure.
The guy on the stairs who killed our jewish teamate let Upum live aparently because he could see he was a cowarding wreck and maybe was himself overcoming the stress of the standoff knife wrestling kill he just partook in.?
The nazi was hurt in combat and that was his excuse to safely abandon the battle without being court martialed, to start a fight with Upham was unnecessary and risky.
My Grandfather serve with Sergeant Frederick Niland in 501 company, Sergeant Frederick Niland was the inspiration for this movie he had 3 brothers that were killed in Action. This movie is based on a true story.
Your full reaction on patreon made me so happy. SO GOOD!
16:26 There was an air attack on the beach before the beach landing, but the bomber planes missed most of the fortifications by several kilometers. The reason was that there was a storm and it made it difficult for the bomber planes to see their targets.
Steven Spielberg's best movie. Honestly, it was one of the best reaction I have seen. You are very good person ❤️
Schindler's List is #1 tbf
That letter from Lincoln was so eloquent and powerful.. That sounded just like him, he was a great writer and orator.
Seeing this in the cinema when it came out was an unforgettable experience.
This same year another incredible war movie came out called THE THIN RED LINE, and they are very, very different indeed.
I also went to watch the thin red line, but it was sadly just "too" surreal for my taste. Incredible cast but the most boring movie I ever watched in my entire life - so many people just walked out of the screening in the first hour...
Yes. The sounds of the tanks rumbling down the street and that 20mm firing made it feel like you were there. What amazed me the most was the absolute silence in the theatre as people filed out. It was packed. I think about our Canadian boys who hit the beach that day as well.
I agree. My wife fell asleep.@@Lixmage
We watched this movie in history class . It's a classic and gives you a glimpse of what war was like back in the 1940s on the European side . The Pacific side of war was much more intense
@@felixsavella4435the poles lost about 18% of there population. They where invaded on the Sept 1st 1939 .
The Nazis murdered 20k poles in the first six weeks .
The Nazis destroyed of 85% of Warsaw and murdered 220 k poles in the Warsaw uprising , which started on august 1 1944 . It lasted for 63 days .
Watch a film called ‘The pianist’.
There was also a brave Jewish uprising in the Warsaw ghetto in 1943 which was brutally crushed.
Where do you start with Russia . They lost between 20 and 27 million people .
The siege of Leningrad.which lasted for 864 days , over a million dead .
Stalingrad a meat grinder . This was the first big defeat for the Germans .
Then Kursk ( operation citadel ) the beginning of the end for the Nazis .
The Russians lost 100k men/women taking Berlin .
The Nazis lost 70% of there men in the Soviet Union.
Without the Soviet Union , the war in Europe would have been lost .
The Russians have been virtually air brushed out of the 2WW . Why I don’t know .
The powder on the wound is sufa powder, and you were correct, it's to mix with the blood and help sterilize the wound by discouraging and bacterial infections.
In my top three all time movies… Great reaction
The guy collecting the dirt is Tom Sizemore. He recently died
Thanks for a very precious and thoughtful reaction. My father fought in that war and one of my uncles as well. One in the Air Force and one in the Navy. They both saw heavy action. In a world full of sin and cruelty even the Bible teaches that “there is a time to kill“. Murder of course, is a sin. my dad struggled knowing that he also bombed many civilians though he hoped he saved many more. Looking for the blessed day of redemption when Christ returns on a “war horse” but ultimately brings peace when “the lion will lay down with the lamb”
Thanks again and praying God‘s best for you.
1. Many WWII vets left the theaters because the D-Day battle scenes were so realistic.
2. The German Captain Miller was talked into letting go is the same one that killed him. Upham finally put him down.
3. The story Ryan tells Miller about the last time he saw his brothers was made up by Matt Damon. He was told to say something interesting, so he did, and it was kept in the movie.
4. There really was a USS Sullivans(DD- 68) dedicated to the brothers lost on one ship. That's why all brother soldiers/sailors from one family can't be assigned to the same command.
5. I did 24 years in the US Navy. My favorite character is Private Jackson/sniper and my second favorite is Sargent Horvath. RIP Tom Sizemore😇
6. Sizemore also played Boxman in "Flight of the Intruder", a movie I'm in briefly.
The guy you thought you recognize is Private Jackson/Barry Pepper, he played Dean Stanton in "The Green Mile".😘
Biss, I have probably watched 20 reaction videos to this movie, none better than yours, 5 stars for you, looking forward to the next one.✴✴✴✴✴
I didn’t think you were going to cry. When you did I only wished I could comfort you. Your reaction was truly touching.
The powder they used at the scene where the medic got hit, is an special powder wich should stop the bleeding. It is still in use today. I work as an emt and we use that powder too on the ambulance.
They gave us something in Iraq that that made some kind of reaction and like clotted up the blood. They were very clear that it was a last resort and very dangerous as if the wind blew some at your eyes it would be devastating. I didn’t take it on missions 😂😂😂
It's sulfa an outmoded drug.
i loved the German translation. ive seen this movie so many times and find something new every time and the small parts of German translated throughout the film was awesome !
I knew a man at my church who was apart of the first wave in Normandy. He said that as realistic as this film was, it was much worse. The greatest generation indeed.
My dad was 6th Armored Division, which was designated as a follow-on division. He landed July 16th 1944. The beaches were still being shelled by heavy artillery and the Navy was still firing counter battery at the time. Dad watched the battleship rounds flying through the air. He was impressed with that until the day he died. He was part of the breakout at St Lo which is very horrific. I won't go into the details but your imagination can't even begin to comprehend what happened.😢
My grandpa was in the 1st boat of the second wave at Omaha. He only had 2 comments on that scene. The water was much darker & redder, like blood itself. Secondly, that the film could only show 1/10th of how bad it was because if they made it how it was they'd never be able to show the movie.
The Battle at the beginning was D-Day the Battle at Normandy. Very real. My grandmother's uncle died in this battle.
Band of Brothers is a great follow up to this. Stephen Speilberg and Tom Hanks made it after this movie. It's a TRUE STORY account of the men in the 101st airbone in WW2. It would be an honor to watch you react to the mini series (10 episodes)
It is the best mini series ever made..
They followed that up with a miniseries dealing with the Pacific side....called the Pacific.
The opening scene is "D-Day", the day the US led Allies attacked the Germans on the beaches of Normandy France in World War II. At that point Germany controlled all of Europe and a large portion of Russia. Very accurate in its depiction of how many people had to die just to get the allied troops back on European soil. The Germans had fortified bunkers with machine guns and the only way to take the beach was to thro wave after wave of people at them.
Powerful..... Hope your back to feeling normal soon, it sucks being sick. I knew your observations of this movie were going to be on point and unique at the same time and you did not disappoint. I love those wrinkles and all the other expressions you have....they are like the icing on the cake to your reactions. ✌❤🍻
Thank you for your heartfelt expressions and emotions! I cried seeing you cry! I come from a military family, (34 of us in the 1st gulf war 1991, fighter pilots to Infantry), Uncles who fought in Vietnam (Green Beret - Special forces)! I was 10 years U.S. Navy, 4 years U.S. Army (Sgt). I've been shot 3 times, blown up 2 times, cut & stabbed in hand-to-hand combat, 2 wars and a revolution. I've known the pain! I pray you never have to!!! Your sweet babe!!
That's why I love living in Switzerland, playing my blues guitar & and piano, I'll get back to the drums eventually (was always a better drummer...Led Zeppelin, Rush, Phil Collins, etc)!!
My grandfather said this was the most realistic movie. He was a decorated WWII veteran
the plot of the story is fictional but the war itself actually happened. the opening battle scene is said to be the most realistic depiction of DDay
06:46 - A Bangalore (also known as a Bangalore torpedo) consists of an explosive charge at the end of a long segmented tube. It's used to clear obstacles from a distance.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore_torpedo
Hey Bisscute, I loved your reaction. If you haven't seen Jojo Rabbit or Only The Brave with Josh Brolin, they are 2 GREAT movies. The 2 Deadpool movies are very funny with a lot of action. Keep up the reactions.
"JoJo Rabbit" Best movie in the last 10 years.
@@rollotomassi6232 I agree with you so much. I love that movie, that's why I keep telling people to check it out. Only The Brave is just as good, if you haven't seen it.
@@davehazel5632 I will check it out. One thing about watching these reactions is some of the truly great movie recommendations given I likely would have never seen.
SHE ALWAYS LOOKS LIKE HEAVEN, AND SHE LOOKS SO VERY SHARP AND BEAUTIFUL IN THAT OUTFIT.
10:05 What makes it worse is that those two soldiers weren't even members of the German army: they were from one of the countries Germany conquered and were conscripted against their will, which is what they were trying to tell the people who shot them.
If you like this, you should watch the tv series " Band of Brothers" that they made a few years after this.
My father in law was a side gunner on a B-24 Liberator. I could never get him to talk about his experiences. My mother in law told me that he never mentioned the war to her. He locked his medals up and no one ever saw them, not even his children. He passed away in 2017.
That scene with the mother receiving the news about her sons kills me every time I watch this film.
This movie was based on the true story of the Nyland brothers during World War 2. Steven Spielberg directed this movie and the scenes depicting the landing at Normandy were so realistic that it triggered PTSD in World War 2 veterans. I love you and love watching your reactions. I subscribed the first time I watched you.
Biss, I love how sincere your reactions are, you absolutely wear your heart on your sleeve, and when you laugh we laugh, and when you cry we cry. I appreciate that you're keeping it real, that you're obvi not hamming it up for the sake of likes. You're bonafide!
Great review as usual! It's important to maintain a sense of humor in combat, it helps you maintain your sanity a little bit.
"Don't kill the translator" 52:55 😂
You should react to Kelly's Heroes. It's a very different type of war film.
This is what my grandfather was doing on his 31st birthday. He was in the fifth wave with the coffins. Thanks for watching this, Biss. FUBAR is S**ked Up Within Any Repudiation.
F'd up beyond all recognition
Realmente esse filme é ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐, e claro que a reação também é ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐!!!!
❤️ thank you
@@BissFlix since you enjoyed SPR, you should watch Band of Brothers, Tom Hanks was involved and it is filmed in same style. 10 episode mini series.. your reaction style is unique, keep it up 👍
I remember my father and i mowed the grass and lawn for a man named Bob Irving. He was on Omaha beach on the first landing wave. He took me and my father inside one day and showed us all his medals and patches. He said he did not even do anything and he did not think if himself as a hero. He also told us that the opening to this movie was 100% accurate. He said there was only 1 flaw. It was not 20 or 30 minutes to break through the german defensives but 7 hours on the beach. The only reason they where finally able to break through the German defensive line was because the germans were finally running low on ammunition
They actually interviewed survivors of the beach scene and that is what happened. Great review young lady as always. Stay safe
no it is extremely exaggerated . at the rate of casualties shown, in that small section of one of many the beaches, during a short period of time, almost all of the landing casualties during d-day would have happened there. ( total itself was a relatively small figure compared most of the other battles of ww2)
ur reaction was so real it humbled me thank u young queen much respect
so glad i found ur channel
Fantastic movie and great recreation. War itself is FUBAR.
3:46 is a true eyewitness account of a solider going back to retrieve his arm
This was loosely based on the Sullivan Brothers who served on the same ship and all were killed. My great aunt had four sons serve, two were killed(Pancho and Joaquin) My Uncles Joe and Memo survived. Two of the most humble and honorable people I was lucky enough to have known. RIP tíos
No, SPR was based on the landings on Omaha Beach during the morning of June 6, 1944, and the immediate few days after the landings. The opening scenes of the film are as close to the reality at the time as the producers could make them.
@@barryfletcher7136 I get that but the theme if losing four sons was based on the Sullivan bros
@@art2736 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sullivan_brothers
@@barryfletcher7136 yeah I get it. All I said was the idea came from Tom Hanks learning of the Sullivan bros
The story about the girl who took a nosedive from the ugly tree wasn't in the script Matt Damon who played Pvt. Ryan ad libbed it and Spielberg knew that it was pure gold.
No sé por qué esta película no ganó en los premios Oscar siendo la mejor en muchos sentidos.
ganó 5 oscars pichón.
Debió haber ganado Mejor Película pero le ganó _Shakespeare In Love_ gracias a chanchullos de su productor ¿Adivina quién es? Harvey Weinstein, el mismo que está preso ahora por delitos sexuales. En RUclips hay documentales explicando cómo Harvey Weinstein cambió el resultado de Mejor Película de _Saving Private Ryan_ a su película _Shakespeare In Love_ .
@@nagufreeman pero no ganó Mejor Película pichón.
No doubt these questions have already been answered here, but if not, two things:
1) Legs are elevated for people in shock to get more blood to their heads -- helps reduce shock symptoms;
2) That white powder that they dusted on Wade's wounds was sulfa, an early antibiotic. It was carried by soldiers for this purpose.
Oh I see, thank you
Reminds me of my grandpa. North Africa , Big Red 1. Took a load of shrapnel and fortunately made it home.
my grandfather had a shot through his mouth at 19 years old but survived. He was at normady, german
@@stefankrautz9048 Much respect for the greatest generation. Stand for all these men and women past and present. At least stand.
My grandfather was a part of this war… From what I remember from him this movie was true to life as any…. Veterans were passing out because of how real it was. He told me that war is ugly and should never happen… I realize the there will always be wars… Someone has to stop tyranny.
It was Speilberg!! Everything that guy creates is gold!! (He wanted to honor veterans by making this movie as true to everything as possible.) Also… check out “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.”
Yes, the Ryan, S. on the beach was one of his brothers, he was mentioned by the officers talking... "one died on the beach in Normandy".. that's him.